still encouraging results which invite the grower to increase her acreage 

 as the making of oil uses all the small olives which otherwise would be re- 

 jected as pickles on account of their size. 



In conclusion I would urge in the interest of the California olive in- 

 dustry the planting of the large Mission variety only, and if you have good 

 soil and ready irrigation facilities and treat your olive orchard as you would 

 any other orchard, namely fertilize and cultivate carefully, you will find 

 that your efforts will be amply repaid. If you do prepare your own fruit and 

 make olive oil from your own olives, make it a rule to furnish the very best 

 as this will help to benefit this important industry and in the end assure you 

 a better financial return. 



A College Girl's Experience in Poultry Raising. 



KATE ELLIOTT TROWBR1DQE. 



A YEAR ago last July I arrived in Glen Ellen a thin and tired out college 

 girl. Since then I have gained muscle and strength that I never 

 thought to have and have done more hard physical labor than I ever 

 thought I would be able to stand. I have practically lived out in the 

 open and though my arms, face and neck are brown as berries I have 

 the satisfaction of knowing that I am stronger and healthier than 

 any girl friend I have. I attribute it all to the out of doors work. 



Our specialty is chicken raising, and while I have only had the incu- 

 bator and incubator chicks to tend to, I can freely say that there is no part 

 of chicken raising in California that a woman could not do. In fact, it is 

 a business especially adapted to women, for it is light enough not to bur- 

 den her, yet vigorous enough to give her strength and health. And, too, 

 it consists mainly of small daily duties which women seem especially suited 

 to perform successfully. 



I say all this of chicken raising in California. California's climate is 

 ideal when contrasted with that of the East. There is never a day in the 

 winter when a woman, properly dressed, cannot tend to her duties in caring 

 for the chickens. And there are very few days that even young chickens 

 cannot be out doors part of the time. Last January I had a brood of chicks 

 numbering 330, right in the midst of the longest continued bad weather we 

 had and I think there was not more than a week altogether that they had to 

 stay inside. And it was not an unusually good winter either. 



Of course in the northern part of the State they have snow and in 

 the central valleys it is very hot, but along the coast, especially counties 

 immediately surrounding San Francisco, is a thriving chicken raising re- 

 gion. I think it is safe to say that the climate of this part of California can- 

 not be rivalled for poultry raising by women, or any one else, as far as that is 

 concerned, in any other part of the United States. 



As I said before, I have had charge only of the incubator and the in- 

 cubator chicks, but I see and know enough of the other greater parts of 

 the work to be able to do them if I had to. 



The preparing of foods and the feeding the hens are not hard if the 

 dry feed system is used, though it takes constant thought and study. Each 

 pen of hens is different from the others and each has to have its special 

 treatment. Then the gathering and the packing of the eggs is no small 

 item of work though it is an easy and pleasant occupation for won 



But the most interesting part of all is the caring for the baby chickens. 

 Both the incubator, when it is running, and the chicks need constant at- 

 tention. Though unceasing the care of the chicks is, for the most part, 

 easy and thoroughly congenial, to me at least. The cleaning the brooders 

 and brooder house is not pleasant, but it is not nearly so disagreeable and 

 hard as I at first thought it would be. 



Besides the actual caring for the chickens it is almost necessary for 

 the successful outcome of the business to have a garden. Green food is 

 absolutely essential to the best development of chickens and there is noth- 

 ing so good for a woman as gardening. It rivals all the gymnasium 

 exercises one could take. So taking it altogether I can, with a perfectly 

 free conscience, advise any woman who wants an independent, profitable 

 and healthy occupation to go into chicken raising in California. 



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